On September 30th, eBay announced that it will adopt a new business strategy—break up the company by spinning off PayPal. This comes six months after one of eBay’s investors, Carl Icahn, first suggested this strategic move. After the breakup is complete, PayPal will be a separate publicly traded company, free to [...]

The Washington Post reports that documents leaked by Edward Snowden show that the NSA received intelligence from Australia’s signals intelligence division on Chicago-based law firm Mayer Brown in relation to the firm’s representation of the Indonesian government in a trade dispute. In response, Indonesia’s foreign minister Continue Reading →

Tech companies win the right to report government data requests (like national security letters) in greater detail. Rand Paul plans on taking his lawsuit against the NSA to the Supreme Court. [via The Hill] The NSA hires its first Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer. [via SANS; SC Magazine]